Monday, August 21, 2006

Shakes On A Plane

Hey! Does anyone remember those guys in England who were accused of planning the worse crime against humanity ever? Come on. It's only been 9 days. None of them have been officially charged with anything. None of them had tickets to get on a plane. Few of them had passports. No one actually committed any crime unless watching documentaries about terrorism is a crime. Thought crime perhaps and maybe Great Britain has just such a law against thinking.

Binary explosives from a chemists perspective.

Pure Acetone30% Hydrogen PeroxideSulfuric Acid

Also needed an ice bath and several hours

Pure acetone is easy to get. Hydrogen peroxide is easy to get at 3% concentration 30% not so. Simple distillation of the H2O2 from CVS can yield the needed solution but it's dangerous. Once procured, mix the two liquids, they're quite stable but very flammable.

Get your ice bath and chill the mixture. Add dropwise sulfuric acid, slowly. In two to three hours you might have enough triacetone triperoxide high explosive to blow out a window or two.

Oooh look over there it's something to keep you from thinking for your own god damned self.

Am I the only person who's noticed that in the last couple months the best in-depth news reporting has been for how they failed to find Jimmy Hoffa in a field in Michigan, how they failed to find JonBenet Ramsey's killer in Thailand and nobody has seen Tom Cruise's ugly baby?